From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs RPC Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:56:26 -0400 Message-ID: <87r58rv2xh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <874o5ny2cw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303675002 6656 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2011 19:56:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:56:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 24 21:56:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QE5Q5-0005ow-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:56:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47901 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QE5Q5-0000Us-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:56:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52723) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QE5Q0-0000UW-Mm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QE5Pw-0006Fe-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]:43071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QE5Pw-0006Fa-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036225098.central.yale.edu [128.36.225.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p3OJuRTQ009803 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:56:27 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB5C616055B; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:56:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:00:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.147 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138685 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Originally I was thinking a string (since that's what emacsclient does), > but I now feel that a Lisp form would be more useful and RPC-ey, and I > think the return value should also be a Lisp form. Sounds reasonable. > Perhaps `eval-at' would be a better name, though? No, we want to maintain the prefix conventions. Maybe something like server-remote-eval.